fugitive English

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fugitive Noun

— A fugitive is a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution.

fugitive

— noun someone who flees from an uncongenial situation fugitives from the sweatshops

— noun someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

— adjective (= fleeting, momentaneous, momentary) lasting for a markedly brief time a fleeting glance fugitive hours rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass a momentary glimpse

Synonyms fugitive synonyms

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fugitive English » English

runaway

escapee

refugee

fleeing

fleer

escaped

deserter

fleeting

vagabond

transitory

running away

passing

momentary

momentaneous

jail-breaker

fugitive from justice

fugacious

escaped prisoner

ephemeral

wandering

wanderer

vagrant

truant

traveller

transient

stray

skulker

short-term

short-run

short-dated

short

shifting

scutter

running

runner

runagate

run-away

roaming

put to flight

occasional

loose

highwayman

fly-by-night

fast runner

evanescent

escaping

escape

episodic

elusive

desperadoes

Topics fugitive topics

What do people use fugitive to talk about?

Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape

• What words refer to someone who has escaped?
  runaway fugitive escapee refugee

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Simple sentences

The fugitive is armed and dangerous.

The fugitive crossed the river.

Tom is a fugitive.

Tom was caught harboring a fugitive.

Tom was harboring a fugitive.

Police cordoned off the area and carried out a thorough search for the fugitive.

Movie subtitles

You Are The Worst Fugitive In The World.

Lady Fugitive,You Have Come To The Right Place.

The police will be glad of any suggestions that will help in capturing the fugitive.

Must feel kinda funny to you to be a fugitive from justice.

I'm a fugitive from justice.

You sound like a fugitive from a nuthouse.

You weren't brought in on a fugitive warrant.

Dressing a wound and hiding a fugitive are two different things.

Must I remind you that you are the fugitive from justice, and not I?

Has possibilities, hasn't it? Mmm-hmm. If there were anything here to interest a fugitive.

Think I could pass for a fugitive, if I acted up a little?

Oh, the fugitive from justice.

You had me feed and lodge a notorious fugitive from justice.

This stuff is fugitive.

Whoever wears that brand is known as a fugitive traitor. and will be treated as such.

Now, that you found me and my fugitive coworkers, who've managed to evade the law for years, our nice fake money and the nice real stamps.

Oh, will you shut up, you reform-school fugitive.

Must I remind you that you are the fugitive and not I?

If there was anything here to interest a fugitive.

Think I couId pass for a fugitive if I acted up a little?

Oh uh, I mentioned it to Sergeant Bleeker when he asked me to describe a fugitive.

That is we thought at the time he was a fugitive.

That man is a fugitive from justice- a murderer- a matricide.

I crossed the ocean in behalf of His Majesty's affairs. not to die at the hands of a fugitive who'd so greatly benefit by my death.

If there were anything here to interest a fugitive.

I mean. on a fugitive or a burglary.

One man's a fugitive and we have reason to believe seriously wounded.

A fugitive, a criminal.

Miss Ferguson, either you tell us what you know. or I'll ask for your arrest: aiding and abetting a fugitive wanted for murder.

Rather innocuous, I must say, considering he was a fugitive from justice.

Then, you play the fugitive trying to clear his name of a crime he didn't commit.

That's why we went to such lengths to make her a fugitive from justice. So that Vandamm couldn't decline to take her along.

These men, together with their deceased or fugitive colleagues, are the embodiment of what passed for justice during the Third Reich.

I'm a wanted fugitive.

Every man out there looks like a fugitive from the penal colony.

My guards were dreaming, then! The fugitive doesn't exist. No more than your mine or your other suspect activities.

News and current affairs

Even after Tamerlan had died, and Dzhokhar, already wounded, was the only known fugitive, the Boston authorities decided to close down the entire city.

She has received death threats from Muslim extremists ever since she renounced - indeed, denounced - her Muslim faith, and was forced to live as a virtual fugitive, albeit under the protection of the Dutch state.

In fact, the self-evidence of the assertion remains fugitive, immanent until some people insist upon it, mutually pledging their Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor, in the process.

Pakistan also provides sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban's chief, Mullah Mohammad Omar (and also harbors a well-known international fugitive, the Indian organized crime boss Dawood Ibrahim).

Villanueva was a fugitive from justice and Almeyda knew that he should turn him over to the police.

Following the news of Almeyda's clandestine meetings, yet another fugitive, Daniel Borobio, made damaging revelations.